Friday, August 14, 2015

Roscosmos postponed the landing of Russian citizens to the moon – “Voronezh Courier” – the newspaper online

A prerequisite for the postponement was to reduce the money snobzheniya development work promising manned transport complex (PPTC-2), the scale of which are developing lunar landing complex (LVPK). Delay establishment and start of flight tests LVPK be 2-3 years. Most likely, it will happen no earlier than 2029 – 2030. It is expected that with the help of a space crew of four people to be transported to the lunar orbit at a given site on the lunar surface. Deferral associated with a decrease in cash snobzheniya the program. This decision was taken in view of budgetary savings. The reason lies in a fairly strong decrease snobzheniya money: the program, the result of the implementation of which did not manifest itself soon, Roskosmos forced to leave on time without attention. Roscosmos, meanwhile, argue that the creation of the lunar lander will continue and decreased budget.

Before that Roskosmos planned landing on the moon in 2030. In the autumn of 2014 the total working group of the Federal Space Agency and the Russian Academy of Sciences has prepared a package of proposals for an integrated methodology and stages of development of the Moon.

Prior to that Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, which deals with the defense industry, said that colonization the moon and near-moon space – one of the main tasks of the Russian Federation in the field of space exploration.

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